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Note to ÞjJ Lv 2VIII (ÞJ 2)

[1, 4] lendr máva* hildar ‘appeasers of the seagulls of battle [RAVENS/EAGLES > WARRIORS]’: Two emendations have been required to produce this warrior-kenning. Holm6’s ‘gæðindr’ must be emended in order for there to be aðalhending in l. 4 and in order to make sense. Gunnlaugur Þórðarson (ÞJ 1857, 63) suggested gælindi (having read Holm6 as ‘gæðindi’). A minor emendation to gælendr ‘appeasers’, the m. nom. pl. form of the agent noun formed from the verb gæla ‘soothe, appease’ (LP, Fritzner: gœla; CVC: gæla; cf. ANG §173. 2), produces the base-word of a warrior-kenning with máva* hildar ‘of the seagulls of battle’, a conventional kenning for birds of prey, with emendation of ms. mávar to gen. pl. máva.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  4. ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  5. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
  6. ÞJ 1857 = Gunnlaugur Þórðarson, ed. 1857. Sagan af Þjalar-Jóni. Reykjavík: E. Þórðarson. 2nd edn 1907. Reykjavík: Jón Helgason.

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